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The first public event of the "Where Is My Name" campaign in Kabul, on 16 August , demanding women are referred to by their own names in public Photo: Across Afghanistan, women are not addressed or referred to by their names in public. Even on wedding invitations and tombstones, they are typically referred to as the daughter, wife or mother of their father, husband or eldest son.

Many Afghans believe naming a woman in public dishonours her. Others are arguing that a tradition that denies women their individual identity is an anachronism. They wanted to provoke and encourage girls and women to fight for their individual identities and their right to be named in public. Many women, as well as some men, in places like Kabul, Herat, Balkh joined the campaign. Not everyone supported the campaign. In the future, they will have another campaign, Whereismybeauty, and ask why should we hide our bodies and beauty from you?

We do not care if you men become sinful. First, we look at why language is important and then at the ways women in Afghanistan are referred to and addressed without naming them. A shared language allows us not only to interact with others, but also shapes our understanding of ourselves, others and the world. That includes shaping our ideas about gender, that is, ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman in a certain society.

Language also changes over time, not only reflecting changes in the way we see each other and the wider world but also helping shape those changes. That interaction between language and social and cultural norms has been studied extensively by sociolinguistics and in cross-disciplinary gender studies. There are several academic journals focussing solely on these issues, including Sociolinguistics Studies, the Journal of Language and Sociocultural Theory, Gender and Language and the Journal of Language and Discrimination see here.

Browsing the table of contents of these journals shows that there is a fair bit of research on how language about women and men, including what women and men are called, affects individual and collective ideas about them. While most of the research focuses on Europe and America, there is also a fair bit of research that looks at language and gender throughout history and across continents.